Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind-Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think - Andy Norman Audiobook
Language: EnglishKeywords: 
Anti-science
 Anti-vaxxers
 Bad Ideas
 CBT
 Cognitive Immunology
 Cognitive Science
 Consciousness & Thought
 Conspiracy Theories
 Conspiracy Theorists
 Conspiracy Thinking
 Corruption
 Covid Denial
 Critical Thinking
 Flat Earth Theory
 Health & Wellness
 Ideology
 Irrational Ideas
 Media Studies
 Mental Health
 Neuroscience
 Philosophy
 Political Polarization
 Psychology
 Social Psychology & Interactions
 Thinking Errors
 Tin-foil Hats
 Toxic Discourse
 Tribalism
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Why do people reject science and believe online conspiracy theories? How are people radicalized online and go on to commit acts of violence? Why is our society so politically polarized?
Astonishingly irrational ideas are spreading. Covid denial persists in the face of overwhelming evidence. Anti-vaxxers compromise public health. Conspiracy thinking hijacks minds and incites mob violence. Toxic partisanship is cleaving nations, and climate denial has pushed our planet to the brink. Meanwhile, American Nazis march openly in the streets, and Flat Earth theory is back. What the heck is going on? Why is all this happening, and why now? More important, what can we do about it?
In Mental Immunity, Andy Norman shows that these phenomena share a root cause. We live in a time when the so-called “right to your opinion” is thought to trump our responsibilities. The resulting ethos effectively compromises mental immune systems, allowing “mind parasites” to overrun them. Conspiracy theories, evidence-defying ideologies, garden-variety bad ideas: these are all species of mind parasite, and each of them employs clever strategies to circumvent mental immune systems. In fact, some of them compromise cultural immune systems - the things societies do to prevent bad ideas from spreading.
Norman shows why all of this is more than mere analogy: minds and cultures really do have immune systems, and they really can break down. Fortunately, they can also be built up: strengthened against ideological corruption. He calls for a rigorous science of mental immune health - what he calls “cognitive immunology” - and explains how it could revolutionize our capacity for critical thinking.
Hailed as “a feast for thought,” Mental Immunity melds cutting-edge work in science and philosophy into an “astonishingly enlightening and productive” solution to the signature problem of our age. A practical guide to spotting and removing bad ideas, a stirring call to transcend our petty tribalisms, and a serious bid to bring humanity to its senses.
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Audiobook 01 - Opening.mp3 129.55 KBs | |
Audiobook 02 - Epigraph.mp3 100.23 KBs | |
Audiobook 03 - Foreword.mp3 1.56 MBs | |
Audiobook 04 - Introduction.mp3 10.61 MBs | |
Audiobook 05 - Part I Mental Immunity.mp3 123.88 KBs | |
Audiobook 06 - Chapter 1 Beyond Critical Thinking.mp3 13.99 MBs | |
Audiobook 07 - Chapter 2 The Cognitive Immunology Toolbox.mp3 9.63 MBs | |
Audiobook 08 - Chapter 3 The Widening Gyre.mp3 10.67 MBs | |
Audiobook 09 - Chapter 4 Six Immune-Disruptive Ideas.mp3 13.96 MBs | |
Audiobook 10 - Chapter 5 Fighting Monsters—Without Becoming One Yourself.mp3 13.95 MBs | |
Audiobook 11 - Part II Mind Parasites and Public Health.mp3 181.72 KBs | |
Audiobook 12 - Chapter 6 The Ethics of Faith.mp3 23.32 MBs | |
Audiobook 13 - Chapter 7 Thought Police Need Not Apply.mp3 17.78 MBs | |
Audiobook 14 - Part III Antibodies and System Failures.mp3 148.81 KBs | |
Audiobook 15 - Chapter 8 Reason’s Fulcrum.mp3 22.67 MBs | |
Audiobook 16 - Chapter 9 Reason Unhinged.mp3 22.59 MBs | |
Audiobook 17 - Part IV Inoculating Minds.mp3 160.17 KBs | |
Audiobook 18 - Chapter 10 Mind Upgrade.mp3 13.66 MBs | |
Audiobook 19 - Chapter 11 Seductive Misconceptions.mp3 29.07 MBs | |
Audiobook 20 - Chapter 12 The Mind Vaccine.mp3 27.52 MBs | |
Audiobook 21 - Conclusion.mp3 5.7 MBs | |
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This post has 6 comments with rating of 3.4/5
November 9th, 2023
Thanks for sharing this and the other books. In our highly polluted information spheres we can use all the help we can get.
November 9th, 2023
The con theorists & Putin prop bots will strenuously object in the most forthright terms. (They might even call it a conspiracy.)
November 9th, 2023
so if we all shut up and believe what these mentally ill stockholm syndrome mental degenerates believe, that should solve the world’s problems should it? Unbelievable the level of cognitive dissonance with all these copium books by labmonkey communists. Hope you enjoy the boot of the state crushing your thin skulls as you pay the price for your stupidity.
November 9th, 2023
As the man sez, us commies will have to take uz red chances. 4 legs good, as they say, some animals are just more equaler than others. The dogs are dead - better stay home & do as yer told; get outta the road if u wanna grow old.
November 9th, 2023
Unfortunately, it’s not surprising to see the tinfoil-hat, pearl-clutching, perpetually-outraged-about-whatever crowd tremble in rage when their thinking is exposed to the light of reason and fact. Nevertheless, thank you so much for posting this series of books. It’s really appreciated and you’re doing a good thing.
We are sliding into another dark age and it’s being cheered on by the ever more conspiracy-addled minds of the flat-earthers, Q-anon enthusiasts, Ancient Alien believers, and those who see communists everywhere - even though I would say a healthy 90% of them don’t know what the word means. They seem to react with anger and violence when their house-of-card belief system is threatened, but to not stand up to them will let them roll right over everything humanity has built and infect others with their vicious, self-aggrandizing insanity.
November 11th, 2023
@desspec blind trust in authority, the leading cause of death in the 20th century (democide) is the very definition of insanity. It wouldn’t be so egregious if cult members like yourself didn’t drag everyone down with you, hence the animosity and outrage at a segment of society that refuses to grow up and still believes in fairy tales like the integrity and good-will of the state. I know it is pointless to debate or argue with those whose basis of discussion is the active denial of reality, and hence the problems we see today. I have always been open to actual arguments from cult members on how their poison religion is scientific, but yet to find any semblance of logic or rational debate. The very fact there are no true double blind studies for any vaccine ever, and they give you the poison ingredients on the insert and full legal immunity tells you everything you need to know. Someone who thinks rat poison in tap water is beneficial is likely beyond reasoning with anyway. If your scientism cult had any basis it wouldn’t need endless lying propaganda and attack to keep the house of cards propped up, luckily we have the internet to bypass deranged statists like yourself who protect the most evil in society. And PS I have read the communist manifesto and understand it to a T.
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